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Diffusion models (DMs) generate remarkable high quality images via the stochastic denoising process, which unfortunately incurs high sampling time. Post-quantizing the trained diffusion models in fixed bit-widths, e.g., 4 bits on weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Rocco Manz Maruzzelli , Basile Lewandowski , Lydia Y. Chen

The Diffusion models, widely used for image generation, face significant challenges related to their broad applicability due to prolonged inference times and high memory demands. Efficient Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yushi Huang , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Jing Liu , Yuhang Li , Jiwen Lu , Dacheng Tao

The Diffusion model, a prevalent framework for image generation, encounters significant challenges in terms of broad applicability due to its extended inference times and substantial memory requirements. Efficient Post-training Quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yushi Huang , Ruihao Gong , Jing Liu , Tianlong Chen , Xianglong Liu

Denoising diffusion (score-based) generative models have recently achieved significant accomplishments in generating realistic and diverse data. These approaches define a forward diffusion process for transforming data into noise and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Yuzhang Shang , Zhihang Yuan , Bin Xie , Bingzhe Wu , Yan Yan

Recent work showed that large diffusion models can be reused as highly precise monocular depth estimators by casting depth estimation as an image-conditional image generation task. While the proposed model achieved state-of-the-art results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Gonzalo Martin Garcia , Karim Knaebel , Christian Schmidt , Daan de Geus , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Large-scale diffusion models like Stable Diffusion are powerful and find various real-world applications while customizing such models by fine-tuning is both memory and time inefficient. Motivated by the recent progress in natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Chendong Xiang , Fan Bao , Chongxuan Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

We introduce the Fixed Point Diffusion Model (FPDM), a novel approach to image generation that integrates the concept of fixed point solving into the framework of diffusion-based generative modeling. Our approach embeds an implicit fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Xingjian Bai , Luke Melas-Kyriazi

Visual generation quality has been greatly promoted with the rapid advances in diffusion transformers (DiTs), which is attributed to the scaling of model size and complexity. However, these attributions also hinder the practical deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kai Liu , Shaoqiu Zhang , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models, but their high computation cost in iterative sampling remains a significant bottleneck. In this work, we present an in-depth and insightful study of state-of-the-art acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Weizhi Gao , Zhichao Hou , Junqi Yin , Feiyi Wang , Linyu Peng , Xiaorui Liu

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Enze Xie , Lewei Yao , Han Shi , Zhili Liu , Daquan Zhou , Zhaoqiang Liu , Jiawei Li , Zhenguo Li

Fine-tuning Diffusion Models remains an underexplored frontier in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), especially when compared with the remarkable progress made in fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs). While cutting-edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Huizhuo Yuan , Zixiang Chen , Kaixuan Ji , Quanquan Gu

Diffusion-based generative models have reformed generative AI, and also enabled new capabilities in the science domain, e.g., fast generation of 3D structures of molecules. In such tasks, there is often a symmetry in the system, identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yixian Xu , Yusong Wang , Shengjie Luo , Kaiyuan Gao , Tianyu He , Di He , Chang Liu

Model quantization reduces the bit-width of weights and activations, improving memory efficiency and inference speed in diffusion models. However, achieving 4-bit quantization remains challenging. Existing methods, primarily based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Maosen Zhao , Pengtao Chen , Chong Yu , Yan Wen , Xudong Tan , Tao Chen

A diffusion model, which is formulated to produce an image using thousands of denoising steps, usually suffers from a slow inference speed. Existing acceleration algorithms simplify the sampling by skipping most steps yet exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Yujun Shen , Changsong Lei , Yu Zhou , Ran Yi , Deli Zhao , Wenping Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks, such as generating realistic images or videos based on textual instructions. However, larger model sizes and multi-frame processing for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianchen Zhao , Tongcheng Fang , Haofeng Huang , Enshu Liu , Rui Wan , Widyadewi Soedarmadji , Shiyao Li , Zinan Lin , Guohao Dai , Shengen Yan , Huazhong Yang , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

Medical image segmentation using deep learning (DL) has enabled the development of automated analysis pipelines for large-scale population studies. However, state-of-the-art DL methods are prone to hallucinations, which can result in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Vincenzo Marcianò , Hava Chaptoukaev , Virginia Fernandez , M. Jorge Cardoso , Sébastien Ourselin , Michela Antonelli , Maria A. Zuluaga

In this paper, we address the performance degradation of efficient diffusion models by introducing Multi-architecturE Multi-Expert diffusion models (MEME). We identify the need for tailored operations at different time-steps in diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yunsung Lee , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Myeongho Jeong , Shinhyeok Oh , Seungtaek Choi

Reconstructing high-quality point clouds from images remains challenging in computer vision. Existing generative-model-based approaches, particularly diffusion-model approaches that directly learn the posterior, may suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Seunghyeok Shin , Dabin Kim , Hongki Lim

Diffusion models have gradually gained prominence in the field of image synthesis, showcasing remarkable generative capabilities. Nevertheless, the slow inference and complex networks, resulting from redundancy at both temporal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Qingyi Gu

Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in image generation tasks. However, generating high-quality content remains notably slow because it requires running model inference over many time steps. To accelerate these models, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zichen Fan , Steve Dai , Rangharajan Venkatesan , Dennis Sylvester , Brucek Khailany